Jazz Articles about COLOSSUS

Colossus: Colossus

by Jack Bowers
August 2, 2013

Colossus is the name of the album and the band, a seventeen- piece ensemble formed in 2012, comprised of present and former students at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and co-led by trumpeter Dave Chisholm, trombonist Mike Conrad and saxophonist Levi Saelua. While the music is decidedly contemporary, its essential components--melody, harmony, rhythm, improvisation--are the same as those that have defined jazz from its inception. In other words, it is modern with almost none of the sometimes ...